Welcome to the Pacific Northwest, a captivating expanse that stretches across parts of British Columbia, Washington, Idaho, and Oregon. While many marvel at its lush forests, rugged coastlines, and majestic mountains, it’s the region’s incredible variety of mushrooms that catches the eye of foragers and nature enthusiasts alike. Thanks to the area’s consistent moisture and…
Contact me if you would like a liquid culture of one of my cultivated mushroom species. I may have agar plates, slants or spores that I can share. Oysters, Lion’s Mane, and King Stropharia are among the easier species. Now is a great time to begin indoor preparations for a mushroom garden in the spring…...
When: Wednesday December 16 @ 7pm On Dec 10 I hosted a 1hr talk (link) with a really basic overview on how cultivation works. Now that I’ve poured some agar plates and cleaned up my lab, I will share some of the projects I’m getting started. Recording Here...
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Here is a recording from a children’s focused talk about mushrooms recorded on Dec 11. A higher quality video is available on FB and other versions posted earlier also have higher resolution....
The process is extracting and analyzing DNA from mushrooms is a lot easier than you might think. Here is a very basic overview of the process Extract DNA from your tissue Select a very specific region to copy Make millions of copies Send those copies to a lab for sequencing Search for that DNA sequence…
A recording from the Dec 1 Intro to Mushrooms talk
This is a simplified talk on some interesting mushrooms we can find around the Pacific Northwest....
Here is a recording from a 1-hour members-only webinar originally hosted on Friday Nov 27 @ 10am. Recording Here...
In past years my mushroom season ended by early November. I simply didn’t realize how far into the fall mushrooms continued to fruit. November is the time to stick to low elevation areas like river valleys and coastal areas. I wanted to make a run for coastal Olympic Peninsula but the drive was a little…...